barnacle

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English

barnacles attached to a humpback whale
the barnacle goose
a barnacle in the form of wires and cut tracks on a printed circuit board

Etymology

From Middle English barnakille, from earlier bernake, bernekke, from Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 2 should be a valid language, etymology language or family code; the value "ONF." is not valid. See WT:LOL, WT:LOL/E and WT:LOF. (compare French barnache), from Medieval Latin barneca (“limpet”), from Gaulish (compare Welsh brennig, Irish báirneac), from Proto-Celtic *barinākos, from *barinā (“rock, rocky ground”) (compare Old Irish barenn (“boulder”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥H- (“hill, mountain”) + Proto-Celtic *-ākos, from Proto-Indo-European *-kos, *-ḱos; for sense development, compare Ancient Greek λέπας (lépas, “rock”) which gave λεπάς (lepás, “limpet”).

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: bar‧na‧cle

Noun

barnacle (plural barnacles)

  1. A marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia that attaches itself to submerged surfaces such as tidal rocks or the bottoms of ships.
    Hypernyms: arthropod, crustacean
  2. The barnacle goose.
  3. (engineering, slang) In electrical engineering, a change made to a product on the manufacturing floor that was not part of the original product design.
  4. (computing, slang) On printed circuit boards, a change such as soldering a wire in order to connect two points, or addition such as an added resistor or capacitor, subassembly or daughterboard.
  5. (software engineering, slang) A deprecated or obsolete file, image or other artifact that remains with a project even though it is no longer needed.
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  6. (obsolete, in the plural) An instrument like a pair of pincers, to fix on the nose of a vicious horse while shoeing so as to make it more tractable.
  7. (archaic, British, slang, in the plural) A pair of spectacles.
  8. (slang, obsolete) A good job, or snack easily obtained.
  9. (slang) A worldly sailor.
    Synonym: shellback

Derived terms

Translations

barnacle goose — see barnacle goose

Verb

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  1. To connect with or attach.
    • 2009, Liza Dalby, Hidden Buddhas: A Novel of Karma and Chaos, Stone Bridge Press (2009), →ISBN, page 178:
      Tokuda went over everything his grandfather had taught him, including the commentary that had barnacled on to the core knowledge.
  2. To press close against something.
    • 2002, Douglas Coupland, All Families Are Psychotic, Vintage Canada (2002), →ISBN, page 16:
      He turned a corner to where he supposed the cupboard might be, to find Howie and Alanna barnacled together in an embrace.

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